I am familiar with the purchasing process using an agent and know that because of the Mortgage it is a pretty slow process, but I am curious to know how much faster a cash closing can get. 

My experience is not enough charge them.I can instantly tell the difference between two vendors between one will do everything for free and one values their time.The one that does everything for free will be lower priced, lower quality, hard to communicate with, frustrating to work with, price oriented instead of quality oriented, typically late all the time, cutting corners, easy to have misunderstandings with, be unsophisticated in his business practices, typically will always lead to deep, ugly problems of some sort due to personality issues, will be reactive during the project, voice mail that is full or phone dead, will require a tremendous amount of babysitting and aggravation from start to finish.The one that values their time will be higher priced, easy to communicate with, quality oriented, on time, will require no baby sitting, will be proactive during the project, typically will be a very easy and painless working relationship.There is more money to be made in the long run when you focus your time on what's important to move your business ahead, freeing up your time and aggrivation allows you to increase your income faster than babysitting everything and pulling your hair out and everything taking 3 times as long.

With more severe weather and sea level rise actually occurring faster than conservative models (which I don't think FEMA even accounts for in their new maps), there is a valid reason FEMA is trying to stop subsidizing flood insurance in certain areas as it's just too costly and has created too much development that likely would not have occurred without the availability of cheap flood insurance rates that real insurance companies wouldn't offer.  

Faster than navigating county assessor's office.

You can always pay it off faster if you want, but you won't be required to.

The dehumidifier(s) suck out gallons of water, and in this situation, faster is better.

Maybe there is something YOU can do for FREE that makes his job go faster and smoother!

Use that money to close on your next deal and find info faster on your search bar of your home screen, use the peer pressure that is inevitable by being here regularly, and network online and in a coffee shop. 

So even if you have a super nice house, there's a good chance that other than renting out "faster" it won't have any affect on the price.Therefore we make our houses "nice" but we do not improve or upgrade them more than our competition aloes.

Fortunately, a good financial decision can accelerate us to our financial freedom much faster.